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“The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.”

Ifs Years Long Five Lucky Band Average Five Years Life Span Average Life

Author:Mike McCready

“We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.”

Long Brain Five Greater Six Logic Infinite Depth Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Dimensions Broads Inches Geometry Magnitude Ontology

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.”

Thinking Long Shows Lasts Five Connected

Author:James MacArthur

“Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing.”

People Thinking Long Young Stuff Cities Steps Millions Five New York Areas Breaths Moved Busy Realising Farms Transition Dirt Centre Where You Come Dirt Roads

Author:Diego Klattenhoff

“You do a movie. However long it lasts, it begins and it ends in a relatively short period of time. In a given period of time, let's say a year, you can have three, four, or five different experiences which is exciting.”

Years Long Different Ends Lasts Three Given Five Four Periods Exciting Different Experiences

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.”

Writing Long Book Ends Process Five Pieces Written Minutes Stage Changed Eight Routine Writing A Book Departure Format One Liner Hbo Drastic

Author:George Carlin

“I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.”

Men Long Five Baby Fallen Crush Long Life

Author:Joan Collins

“There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their faces set in rehearsed snarls; their hair studiously unkempt and matted; their clothes part of some private conceit; and the way they walk and talk and the songs they sing all become part of some long mean reach for the jugular.”

Way Mean Long Faces Song Walks Five Hair Clothes Stones Presses Rolling Conferences Conceit Unfolding Rolling Stones Sinister Press Conferences

Author:Pete Hamill

“If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.”

Ifs Long Whole Use Together Term Levels Results Five Risk Talent Sweet Charity Profit Extremes Humanitarian Long Term Disadvantages

Book:Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

Source: Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.”

“The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.”

Long Five Mets South Twilight Sixty Routes Surviving Nineteen Omen Cubs End Of The Road Vixens

Book:Your Native Land, Your Life

Source: Your Native Land, Your Life

“I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.”

Knows Long Ends Would Be Eye Suffering Five Four Feet Century Type Fingers Curious Brown Jane 19th Century Austen Long Suffering Brown Eyes

Author:Peter Greenaway

“Whatever you can handle, it's up to you. Pick something where you are going to do it to failure--in other words, where you can hardly do it. That's the key. So many people will just take five pound weights and do something 10 times. What are they getting out of it? Nothing! Say you are going to build up your bank account. If you put in a penny a day, it's going take a long while. It's the same with exercise--the more you put into it the more you take out.”

People Ifs Long Five Keys Exercise Picks Weight Accounts Handle Pounds Where You Are Up To You Pennies Bank Accounts Where You Are Going

Author:Jack LaLanne

“(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.”

Writing Years Long Enough Play Young Five Four Six Instruments Eight Songwriting Writing Poems

Author:Willie Nelson

“I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've worked so hard to create characters that have dignity. And I think everybody knows that I have a very pro-woman message in my work - and in my life.”

Thinking Knows Long Two Hard Character Five Feet Messages Dignity

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.”

Ifs Long Real Lasts Spirit Fighting Five Fate Plans Minutes Military Battle Five Minutes

Author:Paolo Bacigalupi

“Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.”

Believe Wells Long Art Soul Reason Body Christian Enemy Five Four Senses Thee Breathing Rely Live By Crossings Contradicting Evangelists Five Senses Soul Life

Author:Thomas Brooks

“Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.”

Years Long Sports Five Very Good Five Years Haul Long Haul

Author:Billie Jean King

“One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.”

Firsts Long Book Education Class Five Feet Shelves First Class

Author:Charles William Eliot

“When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.”

Knows Feels Writing Long Book Enough Stories Used Gone Five Paper Boxes Pounds Chocolate Candy Detectives Detective Stories Box Of Chocolates

Author:Carolyn Wells

“I don't remember what script it was, but at the Monday table read, the [opening] teaser didn't work.We went back and had to think of a new teaser, and [after] four hours, five hours, we weren't landing on anything.And it was probably Glen [Charles] who said, "What are we, cowards?" You had to do it, no matter how long it took.”

Thinking Long Said Matter Remember Hours Five Four Tables Scripts Opening Coward Monday Landing Teasers

Author:David Lee

“June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.”

Way Long Ends Light Young Nature Sun Fire Five Land Months Mountain Spring Red Mark Blue Plant California Fallen Brown Gray Yellow Stem Coast Fog June Oaks Robes Blooming Haze Mustard

Author:Gretel Ehrlich

“Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!”

“Everything is possible for the writer. There isn’t anything anyone can tell you that you can’t do, and there is no such thing as "getting away with" anything. There’s no one to tell you what you can or can’t do. You’re only limited by the fences you allow yourself to build around yourself, for whatever reason, including fidelity to some idea about literature someone else imposed upon you some time long ago or five minutes ago.”

Long Ideas Reason Literature Five Minutes Including Get Away Long Ago Fence Five Minutes Fidelity

Author:Kyle Minor

“It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.”

Years Long Next Differences Five Four Cutting College One Day Majors Complaining Five Years

Author:Robert Griffin III

“I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time.”

“I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!”

Firsts Long Sometimes Wish Hours Five Regret My Family Decided Extras Long Ago Don't Regret

Author:Elizabeth Hoyt

“Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.”

Years Long Order Given Half Five Four Ten Percent Investing Favors Nine Gambling Odds Casinos

Author:Burton Malkiel

“A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn't matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.”

Ifs Needs Should Years Children Long Important Matter Forever Knowing Five Twenties Oneself Five Years Twenty Five Delayed Knowing Everything

Author:Laura Riding

“The frantic search of five-year-olds for friends can thus be seen to forecast the beginnings of a basic shift in the parent-childrelationship, a shift which will occur gradually over many long years, and in which a child needs not only the support of child allies engaged in the same struggle but also the understanding of his parents.”

Needs Years Children Long Parent Understanding Support Struggle Five Friends Engaged Five Years Allies Five Year Olds Frantic Forecasts Parent Child

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“Americans like a winner. If you lose, you're nothing. I'm going to win, though. It's good for the match that Spassky has a plus score against me. We've met five times. He's won three times and we've drawn twice. But I'm a stronger player and a long match favors me.”

Ifs Long Three Winning Loses Five Player Mets Stronger Favors Winner Score Plus Three Times

Author:Bobby Fischer

“When you get to work with great people like on our movie, Blake and Ellen Burstyn and Harrison and Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, the first minute or two it's like, 'Oh my God, I'm working with you,or Harrison,' people you've admired for so long, after like five minutes you realize we're all trying to do the same thing, we all have a passion for telling good stories and we're going to try to make the story the best possible.”

People Trying Firsts Long Two Stories Passion Realizing Five Minutes Crew Five Minutes Great People Good Story Bakers Blake Amanda

Author:Michiel Huisman

“All my cuts are always about three hours, at the start, mainly because any scene in the movie that's 90 seconds, I probably shot a five-minute version of. If you just extrapolate that through the whole movie, I have a very long version of every scene, usually because, if there's one funny joke, I'll shoot five because I don't know if the one I like is going to work. I'll get back-ups because my biggest fear is to be in previews, testing the movie, and a joke doesn't work, but I have no way to fix it because I have no other line.”

Ifs Knows Way Long Whole Three Hours Lines Five Cutting Minutes Scene Jokes Shots Versions Get Back Seconds Testing Going To Work Five Minutes Biggest Fear Funny Jokes Preview

Author:Judd Apatow

“I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we affect each other. In terms of time, we are not that far from one another. If we were to look back a century, it would seem like a long time; but, if we look at it by decades then it’s only 10 years, and by generations it’s only five.”

Ifs Years Wells Looks Long Bigs Seems Joy Term Pay Attention Five Generations Sadness Fans Century Lessons Long Time Decades Pay Attention Joy And Sadness

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.”

Years Long Different Would Be Together Felt Loses Chance Five Example Response Pursue Comic Enjoyed Five Years Rejected Unemployed Good Chance Hobbes Comic Strips Long Road

Author:Bill Watterson

“I don't like being in one place too long. Five days just about does it for me because I have a very low threshold for boredom.”

Long Doe Five Lows Boredom Threshold

Author:Jackie Collins

“I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened. I remember when I did 'Click' and I'd see Adam Sandler's fan base. He's the guy that people feel that he's their best friend, so he's walking down the street and people sort of high five him and want to tell him a joke or invite him to come home and have a sandwich with them. Mine are not like that. Mine tend to go: 'Argh,' and look horrified. They shake and take a picture from a really long way away. I do feel I've got quite good, respectful ones though.”

“I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.”

Want Long Humor Beautiful Five Written Drink Thousand Hundred Alcohol Heat Feds Waking Alcoholics Anticipate Completion

Book:Jack London Six Pack

Source: Jack London Six Pack

“I saw a close friend of mine the other day. . . . He said, "Stephen, why haven't you called me?" I said, "I can't call everyone I want. My new phone has no five on it." He said, "How long have you had it?" I said, "I don't know . . . my calendar has no sevens on it."”

Knows Want Long Said I Can Humor Funny Five Saws Havens Mines Phones Calendars Close Friends

Author:Steven Wright

“My time on TV has been awesome; between 'Party Of Five' and 'Ghost Whisperer,' I've been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences' hearts.”

Heart Long Has Beens Running Party Audience Five Tvs Lucky Series Ghost My Time Long Runs Tv Series Ghost Whisperer

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“On a certain scale, it does look like I do a lot. But that’s my day, all day long, sitting there wondering when I’m going to be able to get started. And the routine of doing this six days a week puts a little drop in a bucket each day, and that’s the key. Because if you put a drop in a bucket every day, after three hundred and sixty-five days, the bucket’s going to have some water in it.”

Ifs Looks Littles Long Doe Able Certain Three Water Wonder Five Week Keys Six Hundred Sitting Scales Each Day Routine Sixty Buckets

Author:John McPhee

“I stopped directing in 2001 for - oh, damn - four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of Horror.' I had been working steadily as a director since 1970. That's a long time. I was burned out.”

Years Long Five Four Masters Tvs Horror Directors Long Time Series Five Years Burned Tv Series Burned Out

Author:John Carpenter

“There wasn't very much time between wrapping Revolutionary Road and starting The Reader. It was about five and a half months, which, for me, isn't that long. Some actors are very good at just going from one thing to another but I've always been a bit useless at that. The preparation time is important for me.”

Long Important Actors Bits Half Five One Thing Months Reader Starting Very Good Preparation Useless Revolutionary Wrapping

Author:Kate Winslet

“My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15 years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're slower.”

Years Long Has Beens Government Might Past Cases Issues Taken Five Building Projects Long Time Seven Average Accepted Approval Seven Years Funding

Author:I. M. Pei

“It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.”

Ifs Long Two Three Asks Difficult Hours Prayer Five Minutes Exercise Knees Protest Five Minutes

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.”

Want Long Social Waiting Enjoy Five Security Sixty Enjoy Life Social Security

Book:The comedy of Neil Simon

Source: The comedy of Neil Simon

“I find that no matter how long a meeting goes on, the best ideas always come during the final five minutes, when people drop their guard and I ask them what they really think.”

People Thinking Long Ideas Matter Asks Five Minutes Goes On Meetings Finals Five Minutes

Author:Michael Eisner

“The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.”

Thinking Writing Long Five Share Members Long Time Moved Agency Lions Frank Urgency Approved Sense Of Urgency Dodd Frank

Author:Mary Schapiro

“If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.”

Ifs Long Two Book Would Be Artist Strong Fiction Five Ten Married Lists Tales Evening After Death Evoke Fiction Writers Married Life Gail

Author:Ned Rorem